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Interdependent yet independent, these selections explore the musical concept of counterpoint—the relationship between two or more musical lines or voices, used by composers spanning the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century. The evening includes the world première of a multimedia version of Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint, commissioned by La Jolla Music Society for SummerFest, the Synergy Initiative, and Lincoln Center, which will feature clarinetists from all of the Lincoln Center performing ensembles. Date | Saturday, July 30 at 7:30 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $48 to $98. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/point-counterpoint or call (858) 459-3728.

The opening concert for La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2022 brings together compositions written in collaboration with multiple composers or played by multiple performers on the same instruments all performed by some of the most brilliant chamber musicians of our era. A series of Romantic-era variations culminates in two stunning quartets, Bacewicz’ Quartet for Four Violins and Czerny’s Quartet for Four Pianos, with four of the finest pianists in the world—Garrick Ohlsson, Inon Barnatan, Joyce Yang, and Wynona Yinuo Wang—on stage at once. With prelude interview with Inon Barnatan hosted by Leah Rosenthal at 6:30 p.m. at the The JAI. Date | Friday, July 29 at 7:30 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $53 to $113. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/opening-night-side-by-side or call LJMS at (858) 459-3728.

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La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest returns to The Conrad, expanded to four glorious weeks! Music Director Inon Barnatan has created an ambitious program, evocatively titled “Under the Influence,” exploring the muses that seduced and inspired some of the greatest composers in musical history. During the Festival, we’ll hear the magnetic effect of Wagner and J.S. Bach on their peers, travel to the salons of Paris, and experience the sins and merry pranks of Kurt Weill and Strauss. We’ll spend a genre-defying and unique week with opera stars, dancers, and jazz luminaries, and go further under the influence in a new intermission-free Wednesday series that welcomes audiences into the worlds of Shakespeare, Vivaldi, and more followed by a social and culinary experience in the Wu Tsai QRT.yrd. Garrick Ohlsson, Augustin Hadelich, Liza Ferschtman, Marc-André Hamelin, Caroline Shaw, Carter Brey, Joyce Yang, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Cécile McLorin Salvant, the Dover and Miró Quartets, and many more astounding artists will join us in La Jolla for a Festival you won’t want to miss! The "Under the Influence" Music Festival will run from Friday, July 29 through Friday, August 26 at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center. View all SumerFest 2022 lineup here! Get tickets for three events and receive a special discount. For more information, please visit ljms.org/summerfest or call (858) 459-3728.

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Coinneach MacLeod, otherwise known as the TikTok sensation The Hebridean Baker (with 16 million video views and counting!) will be in San Diego on Wednesday, May 11 for a 6:30 p.m. book signing event at Diesel Bookstore – Del Mar (12843 El Camino Real Suite 104) to celebrate his debut cookbook, "The Hebridean Baker: Recipes and Wee Stories from the Scottish Islands." This is so much more than a cookbook. In addition to 70 rustic, old family favorites and classic recipes from his home on the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, MacLeod shares stories about the islands, and their culture, language, traditions and legends. You can view the cookbook here. Recipes include: His Aunt Bellag’s clootie dumpling recipe and the secret ingredient (pgs. 22-23) His recipe for Scots Flummery, which according to legend, Flora MacDonald was haVlfway through a dish of when she was arrested for her part in helping Bonnie Prince Charlie escape following his defeat at Colluden in 1746 (pgs. 64-65) His recipe for Whiskey Tiramasu – the authentic Italian dessert gets a Scottish twist, by replacing the sweet Marsala wine with a dram of whiskey (pgs. 196-197) This is a ticketed event and seating is limited. Reserve a seat with the purchase of a book. Masks are required to attend Visit Diesel Bookstore on Instagram

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